Since indexing systems concentrate upon the information content of materials and not upon their form, instructional media centers (IMC) can use one system for all media. Content descriptors can be selected from a thesaurus of accepted terms, from the title of the material, or from an analysis of the content. The first of these three methods is the…

This document presents a classification of the campus resources of higher education institutions in the United States. After the foreword, the institutions are divided into 5 categories: doctoral-granting universities; comprehensive colleges and universities; general baccalaureate colleges; 2-year colleges, and separate specialized professional…

The results of various computerized coding techniques used to identify persons of Spanish derivation were compared to questionnaire responses in which people identified themselves as Spanish. The coding techniques classified names as Spanish and non-Spanish using the following: census surnames; Morton surnames; "Broad" Spanish surnames; "Narrow"…

Instructional programs in Oregon are being rebuilt around a career cluster concept in which preparation for a career becomes a primary objective of education. This guide is intended to supply information that will help administrators, school boards, teachers, and architects with facilities planning--whether it is a matter of adapting existing…

Recent additions to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Headquarters Library are listed in this library bulletin. Entries follow the IPPF classification scheme and are arranged by topics: (1) general office management and administration, (2) contraceptive methods, (3) family planning (general), (4) United Nations, conferences,…

The purpose of the study was to survey and describe procedures for allocating faculty office space at selected colleges and universities. The findings indicated only a few insitutions with no standard procedures or guidelines for allocating faculty space. Most institutions reported that the academic vice-president was in charge of faculty space…

This research study was intended as a basis for developing a device to measure college classroom teaching effectiveness. A review of some of the literature indicated that most past efforts to evaluate college teaching had used some sort of rating form and the results were quite ambiguous. However, 3 studies using the critical incident technique…

The reappearance of an old controversy on how best to analyze the Russian palatalized consonants prompts the author of this article to define the words "palatalization" and "palatal." Contrastive examples clarify phonetic terminology including the classifications of "labial voiced and voiceless palatalized stops,""labial voiced and voiceless…

Listed are terms relevant to the indexing of professional materials in the field of exceptional child education. Entries are approved descriptors appearing in the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors" used by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouses, and were selected on the basis of particular need to the…

This paper presents two views on the categorization of Japanese nouns, verbs, and adjectives into form classes: the traditional view and a view set forth in the writing of Suzuki Akira. The fundamental issue here is the criterion for categorization. Is it the meaning of words, or is it their grammatical behavior that determines the system of…

The objectives of this paper are to describe the effect of using weighted index terms in a document retrieval system, and to evaluate retrieval performance when queries are expanded by terms occurring in clusters with the query terms. Three data collections, each indexed by several methods, two of which were studied and reported on in previous…

This study involved two phases: first when classification was based on the calibration sample, and second in a cross-validation setting. Computer-generated data were used. Results obtained from rules based on probabilities of group membership were compared for accuracy when classifying in the discriminant space and in the predictor variable…

The thesaurus is intended to clarify and standardize terminology used to index instructional materials for exceptional children within the Special Education Instructional Materials Centers/Regional Media Centers Network. Although most of the approximately 1100 terms are descriptors selected from the thesaurus of the Educational Resources…

For information storage and retrieval, a thesaurus is used during indexing and searching processes to translate from natural language into a more restricted retrieval system language. The purpose of this thesaurus is to control the language used to index and retrieve documents of interest to Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS) and the…

The purpose was to evaluate the effectiveness of a geometry course for preservice elementary teachers and, at the same time, to validate the assumptions that the arrangement of categories in Bloom's "Taxonomy" is hierarchical and cumulative. Sixty-two preservice elementary education majors took an investigator-constructed achievement…